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On this day in the United States
- 1657 – Citizens of New Netherland presented the Flushing Remonstrance to Peter Stuyvesant, the director general, requesting an exemption to his ban on Quaker worship.
- 1814 – The destruction of the schooner USS Carolina brings to an end Commodore Daniel Patterson's makeshift fleet, which fought a series of delaying actions that contributed to Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans.
- 1845 – John L. O'Sullivan, in his newspaper the New York Morning News, argued that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country "by the right of our manifest destiny", popularizing the term's use.
- 1927 – Show Boat, considered to be the first truly American musical, opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.
- 1932 – New York City's Radio City Music Hall opened with the world's largest auditorium at the time.
- 1968 – Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital crewed mission to the Moon.
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